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Failures of Intelligence Is Why “America is Beautiful But She Has An Ugly Side”
by Eileen Fleming
“Lookin’ for a leader to bring our country home. Re-unite the red white and blue, before it turns to stone…America has a leader, but he’s not in The House…America is beautiful but she has an ugly side. We’re lookin’ for a leader with the Great Spirit on his side.”-Neil Young
This citizen of conscience for U.S. House of Representatives 2012 asserts that America’s ugly side is rooted in failures of intelligence, heretical Christianity and a lack of true patriotism, for “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“The Crusade for a Christian Military: Jesus Killed Mohammed” by Jeff Sharlet in HARPER’S May 2009 edition was a chilling clarion call regarding the entrenchment of Christian fundamentalism in the USA military that began during the Cold War, accelerated during the Vietnam era and which has wrecked havoc on the very soul of our nation.
Fundamentalist [referred to as evangelical by Sharlet] Chaplains began to join the military in droves as they aligned themselves with the Industrial Military Complex in opposition with Catholics and mainline moderate Protestant denominations such as Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians who were of one voice speaking out against American terrorism in Vietnam and for following in the ways of the nonviolent Jesus.
“Starting in 1987, Protestant denominations were lumped together simply as “Protestant”; moreover, the Pentagon began accrediting hundreds of evangelical and Pentecostal “endorsing agencies,” allowing graduates of fundamentalist Bible colleges—which often train clergy to view those from other faiths as enemies of Christ—to fill up nearly the entire allotment for Protestant chaplains. Today, more than two thirds of the military’s 2,900 active-duty chaplains are affiliated with evangelical or Pentecostal denominations.” [1]
“For decades, the military built a sense of solidarity out of a singular purpose, the Cold War struggle between free markets and state-planned economies—the shining city on a hill versus the evil empire…meshed neatly with ideologies [that connected] nationalism and fundamentalism…Communism…the dark alternative should we fail to unite. Fundamentalism thrived…a neat, black-and-white [theology and] a foreign policy. The end of the Cold War deprived militant evangelicals of that clarity [and] the emergence of “radical Islam” [became] the object of a new Cold War.” [Ibid]
The roots of American evangelism sprang from the original altar call for Christians to stand up against slavery. What has been passing for Christianity in our military today is the antithesis of what Jesus was all about.
“Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent.”-Gandhi
Clement, Tertillian, Polycarp and every other early Church Father taught that violence was a contradiction of what Christ was about. The first and greatest heresy in the Christian faith occurred in the third century when Augustine penned the “Just War Theory” for church and state united and “our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”-Dorothy Day
One of the greatest Christian spiritual leaders of all time, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk that listened to Bob Dylan LP’s in his hermitage in Kentucky during the ’60′s was the first religious voice to rise up and speak out against the Vietnam War.
Merton also said, “The duty of the Christian at this time is to do the one task God has imposed upon us in this world today. The task is to work for the total abolition of war. There can be no question that unless war is abolished; the world will remain constantly in a state of madness…The church [meaning all Christians] must lead the way on the road to the abolition of war…Peace is to be preached and nonviolence is to be explained and practiced.”
The deep spiritual darkness of Christian fundamentalism in the USA Air Force Academy in Colorado enabled the likes of Walid Shoebat, author of “Why We Want to Kill You” to speak to America’s troops in his role as a former fundamentalist Islamic supposed terrorist who is now a converted fundamentalist Christian.
Shoebat is one of the infamous darlings of many fear filled Christians and Jews [Read More: The Walid Shoebat Show and "America is Beautiful, but she has an ugly side." - Neil Young ] of the cult spewed by the likes of John Hagee and the idiot wind blown by FOX’s Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Neil Cavuto who have all hosted Shoebat as did the US Air Force Academy on Feb. 6, 2008 when he was the headline act at their annual political forum.
Walid Shoebat, has built a lucrative speaking career by manipulating the fears and whipping up hatred between Jews and Muslims. Shoebat insists that Israel should “wake up and smell the Hummus. We must return to the status quo – the occupation…Israel should stand strong and fight – dismantle Hamas and take away all the weapons, the way it used to be. The introduction of weapons into Palestinian society by Israel [under the Oslo accords, Israel gave assault rifles to Arafat’s ‘police force’ –ed.] was a disaster and they must be confiscated.” [2]
FACT: Israel originally supported Hamas to be a wedge between Fatah when Arafat became too popular with the Palestinian people.
Shoebat feels very strongly that the ongoing war against Israel has nothing to do with an Arab desire for a Palestinian state, “Never in history was there a Palestinian state, we never wanted a Palestinian state – even today the Palestinians do not want a Palestinian state…They want the destruction of the Jews, period. It’s a religious holy war.”[IBID]
FACT: Israel is a State and Palestine is the Land. States have obligations and people have rights!
During his time at the Air Force Academy, Sharlet encountered fervent fundamentalist militant American soldiers who are most misinformed of their very own faith for they neglect that for a Christian “our manifesto is the Sermon on the Mount, which means that we will try to be peacemakers.” -Dorothy Day
And “How can you kill people, when it is written in God’s commandment: ‘Thou shall not murder’?”– Leo Tolstoy
There are currently at least thirty-five wars being fought in the world and the USA is connected to every one of them.
Over forty-thousand people die every day of starvation.
Three billion humans endure dire destitution.
Hundred’s of children have been killed by unmanned drones under the Obama Administration.
America warehouse’s twenty-five thousand nuclear weapons and we the people inhabit a world darkened by bureaucratic systematic institutionalized structures of violence that kill human beings through war and poverty and all the consequences of destruction and despair that flow from corporate greed, violence and religiosity.
Nonviolence is at the core of every religion and Jesus promised it is the peacemakers who are the daughters and sons of God. Jesus denounced injustice, turned over the tables of the bankers in the Temple, was arrested, jailed, tortured and brutally executed, but remained nonviolent, compassionate and forgiving to all.
Jesus called us to love our neighbors- meaning everyone on the planet, to be compassionate to all, to seek justice for the disenfranchised, to forgive our enemies, to put down the sword. His death on the cross was in vain if those who claim to follow him do not have eyes to see and ears to hear that his message was we are to end the cycle of violence for God created, loves and is in all beings and all of creation.
It is a lack of imagination that accepts a future of endless war.
It is fear of the other that fuels fundamentalism.
The brand of Christianity being espoused by too many in our military is a fear-filled ideology that supports empire in this world and does not support what Jesus stood and died for: forgiveness, compassion and nonviolence.
The militarization of Christianity has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus who promised it is the peacemakers who are the children of God and NOT those that bomb, torture, starve or occupy others!
The militarization of Christianity defies that “God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. There is no fear in love. Perfect love drives out all fear because fear has to do with punishment.” 1 John 4:16, 18
The militarization of Christianity as professed by anti-Christ’s –meaning against the teachings of Christ- from the pulpit by preachers like John Hagee and in the fictional “Left Behind” series of profane theology express the spirit of the anti-Christ: fear of the other that drives one to violence.
The militarization of Christianity thrives on fear of the other but Jesus said: “FEAR NOT! You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.”
The militarization of Christianity leaves behind all the non-negotiable’s for those who claim to be a Christian; which is you must forgive, bless and love your enemies-NOT bomb, torture or occupy any!
The problem is not with our troops or Christianity!
The problem is that too few who claim to be Christian have done it the way Jesus taught and modeled: to always work for PEACEFUL resolutions, even to the point of returning violence with compassion and forgiveness, as Jesus did when nailed to a cross and he prayed: “Father forgive them, they do not know what they are doing.”
Christians are called by God to prayerfully use the gift of discernment and to test all things according to the teachings of Jesus. A follower of Jesus- or anyone with a good conscience- would choose equality, fraternity, community and nonviolent creative resistance to the evil that is violence.
It is willful ignorance, apathy, arrogance and misinformation that are holding back the transformation of hearts and minds to understand that war is the ultimate form of terrorism and supreme expression of the spirit of the anti-Christ; meaning against what Christ taught and modeled with his life!
“The first casualties of the military’s fundamentalist front are not the Iraqis and Afghans on the wrong side of an American F-16. They’re the spiritual warriors themselves.” [3]
Christ laid down in the Sermon on the Mount principles by which to guide lives, “Whoever hears these sayings of mine, and put them into practice, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded upon a rock. And everyone that hears these sayings, and does not put them into practice, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell, and great was its fall.” (Matt. 7:24-27)
My Spin on the Sermon on the Mount:
About 2,000 years ago, when Christ was about 33, he hiked up a hill and sat down under an olive tree and began to teach the people;
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.”
In other words: it is those who know their own spiritual poverty, their own limitations and ‘sins’ honestly and trust God loves them in spite of themselves who already live in the Kingdom of God.
How comforted we will all be, when we see, we haven’t got a clue, as to the depth and breadth of pure love and mercy of The Divine Mystery of The Universe.
God’s name in ancient Aramaic is Abba which means Daddy as much as Mommy and He/She: The Lord has said, “My ways are not your ways. My thoughts are not yours.” -Isaiah 55:8
Christ proclaimed more: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge. In other words: how comforted you will be when you also know humility; when you know yourself, the good and the bad, for both cut through every human heart.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, they will be filled.”
In other words: how comforted you will be when your greatest desire is to do what “God requires, and he has already told you what that is; BE JUST, BE MERCIFUL and walk humbly with your Lord.”-Micah 6:8
“Blessed are the merciful, they will be shown mercy.”
In other words: how comforted you will all be when you choose to return only kindness to your ‘enemy.’
“For with the measure you measure against another, it will be measured back to you” Christ warns his disciples as he explains the law of karma in Luke 6:27-38.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they see God.”
In other words: how comforted you will be when you WAKE UP and see God is already within you, within every man, every woman and every child. The Supreme Being is everywhere, the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, Beyond The Universe -and yet so small; within the heart of every atom.
“Blessed are The Peacemakers: THEY shall be called the children of God.”
And what a wonderful world it would be when we all seek peace by pursuing justice; for there can be none without the other.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires, theirs is The Kingdom of Heaven.”
And one fine day the lion will lie down with The Lamb and man will make war no more; and that will create the Kingdom of God on planet earth.
St. Paul warned all followers of Christ to “not judge the non-believer; it is none of your business. But, when it comes to the believer, provoke one another to good works.”
The militarization of Christianity and all terrorism committed in the name of God must be confronted.
Our troops and veterans deserve overflowing gratitude-which is the highest expression of love- for “there is no greater love than one who will lay down his life for another.” [John 15:13]
Our troops require the best of intelligence and our world is desperate for Christians to follow what Jesus actually said.
This Citizen of CONSCIENCE for House of Representatives 2012 and patriotic American is aggrieved that so much of it is MIA, but I am persistently praying that a leader with the Great Spirit on his/her side walks among us and I sure hope he/she hears the call!
1. Jeff Sharlet, HARPER’S, May 2009 pages 31-43.
2.Shoebat: From PLO Terrorist to Lover of Zion
3. Sharlet, HARPER’S.
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who made god?
Who made the egg that became a chicken and which came first?
Great article, Eileen! Should have said, great articles! We’re fighting the War on Truth, as we have been for ages. Unlike the stateless War on all people who self medicate, the War on Truth is a War on the Planet itself and encompasses all the “little wars,” from Monsanto’s War on the Food Chain to the War to privatize Water, to set up a stateless multinational radical monopoly, or social iatrogenesis. Great article! Thanks!
A few nagging points:
//FACT: Israel is a State and Palestine is the Land. States have obligations and people have rights!//
Not true. Israel’s UN recognition was CONTINGENT upon return of all Palestinian refugees and reestablishment of their full rights as citizens. Israel never complied with the contingency and legally its UN Statehood status is annulled. It is an ILLEGAL member of UN because of the US support. It is not a state. It does not even print a map of its borders.
//How can you kill people, when it is written in God’s commandment: ‘Thou shall not murder’?”//
Ten Commandments belongs to the Akkadian civilization that ended at least 500 years before Moses supposedly lived. Akkadians were not monotheists. So it was not “God’s Commandment” but more of a set of moral codes. The almost verbatim tablet found in Iraq some 25 years ago has disappeared after radio-isotope dating revealed the age.
//Walid Shoebat, has built a lucrative speaking career by manipulating the fears and whipping up hatred between Jews and Muslims.//
How eerie that from the tons of documented materials on how modern Judaized Khazarians subliminally reinterpreted and reproduced the Bible to ingratiate themselves with Christians and that they are the only reasons Christian West is being turned against ME moslems (not Indonesians or Chinese moslems), a recent total fraudster with an alias name is being high lighted as why Jews hate moslems. Unbelievable.
Very nagging points:
Many of the ‘Christian’ West do not follow what Jesus said and not all Jews hate Muslims, but many have been brainwashed by bad theology and ideologies that promote superiority.
Israel has no constitution, no declared borders but does have a Declaration of Establishment which they have NOT honored:
“On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations.” – May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
Israel’s very statehood was contingent upon upholding the UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN RIGHTS and Israel has NOT complied with many of the Articles and ignores the warnings of the Preamble:
PREAMBLE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Greetings,
“The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.” Ex. 15:3
“and when the lord your god delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with THEM nor show MERCY to THEM. Nor shall you make marriages with THEM.” Deut. 7:2-3
“Let all men of war draw near… Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears;” – Joel 3:9-10
Samaria is held guilty … They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child ripped open.” – Hosea 13:16
“but on that day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed THEM all. Even so it will be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.” – Luke 17: 29-30 Jesus not only believed in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, but he seemed to endorse it. He also endorsed slavery.
“But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.” – Luke 19:27
The message of the sermon on the mount was: you poor ignorant masses, just accept your lot (no pun intended) in life and abide. In some fairy land future you will inherit the earth. So chill out and suck up to authority. Oh, and don’t even think about forming a union.
Agape,
Infidel
The message of the sermon on the mount was: you are ALL equal beings in the eyes of The Divine and when you Wake Up and see that; what ever your lot in life is you will be satisfied.
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need”-the gospel by Rolling Stones
Heretical Christianity? Well you can’t expect much better fm a nation founded by a bunch of deist, Freemasons and other assorted occultists…Ben Franklin was at the meeting of the Grand Orient lodge when they planned the murder of King Louis XVI…Jefferson thought it better that the “whole world be covered in blood” than for that system of altar and throne being joined harmoniously…The Quebec Act by King George ( and wanting their own currency ) which gave Catholics religious rights in that province enraged the “patriots” more than any tea tax….What can we expect? Now we’re totally controlled by the Synagogue of Satan; our privately owned central bank..our media, our entertainment industry…Wall St…the govt….it all belongs to them..
What we should expect is that it is up to we the people to bring on the 2nd American Revolution and if we don’t we have no one to blame but our selves!
Doing ALL I can with hope that others will seize their rights and liberties before they are gone,
Eileen Fleming, Citizen of CONSCIENCE for House of Representatives 2012
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org Staff Member of Salem-news.com
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ONLY in Solidarity can we begin the world again.
the Evangelicals and Pentecostals are the worst..they incline towards Israel worship…welcome the Apocolypse and everything that they believe must come before it..The Christian Zionism is just bizarre…and with it comes a total rejection of Just War theory….( I’m sorry but Christians are allowed to defend themselves, there IS such a thing as a Just War doctrine perfected by St. Thomas Aquinas..) These people think it doesn’t matter that Iraq was no threat to us…that the official 9-11 story is bs and that all the evidence points to it being a Mossad job w/the assistance of their assets in country…they think torture is OK…they think is poisoning people w/depleted uranium is OK…etc
The worst of the worst began when Augustine penned the “Just War Theory” and the church got into bed with the state and “our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”-Dorothy Day
Within one hundred years after Emperor Constantine decreed Christianity the religion of the state, soldiers were required to be baptized; but it was not required for them to understand what the faith was all about.
than for that “system of altar and throne being joined harmoniously should continue”….and “they think poisoning people w/DU is OK”….Both should read above…And they do…Some decent people are also just naive and ignorant…some woman at Church handed my friend and I a “voter guides” ( she was pro Ariel for shame McCain ) I pointing out the “differences” btwn McCain and Obama…I focused on the really ridiculous part that quoted McCain saying he didn’t want to keep American forces in Iraq “one day longer than necessary” when he had already sd on the stump that he wouldn’t mind keeping them there for a “hundred yrs…why not a 1,000?” She sd that ” well, I’m just glad we liberated the Iraqi people”….I lost it.
We “liberated” their souls fm their bodies…We destroyed their infrastructure, their economy..took away any vestige of sovereignty…Poisoned them with cancer and birth defect causing depleted uranium…probaly murdered over a million of them…( Make no mistake about it Bush I and Bush II killed more Iraqis, mostly civilians, than any Iraqi govt would ever have dreamed of…Especially Bush II…As soon as the war was announced all I could hear coming out of Bush’s mouth was; “welcome to the new Amerika where we proudly kill arabs for Israel-based on false intell and lies..” The same Christian president who had male hookers do overnights at the WH…America-where Catholic hating occultists pass themselves off as Christians and get away with it..
As a candidate for president G.W.Bush claimed his favorite philosopher was Jesus Christ. As president he proved he was clueless as to what JC was all about.
I recall a TV interview he did with a reporter who asked “Before you invaded Iraq, did you pray for Sadamm Hussein?
Bush got that ‘deer in the headlight’ look in his eyes and stuttered ‘No.”
JC taught that in order to be forgiven one must forgive ones enemies and PRAY for ones enemies-NOT bomb them!
So what’s worse, Ms. Fleming, committing murder or refusing to fight for justice for the murderer, opting instead to look the other way, for whatever reason (and there are many)? Many, if not most Christians are anti-Israel and anti-zionist, probably close to fifty percent in the US and probably about 80 percent worldwide, according to Christian friends who take both Israel’s depravity and church issues very seriously. Yes, a lot of them initially supported the Iraq invasion, but even Christians are capable of realizing they’ve been had, sometimes.
You’re doing a reasonable job of highlighting Israel’s crimes, but this blame-anyone-other-than-the-Jews fake-progressive J-street-style blame-the-Christians-for-crimes-of-the-zionists crap is getting pretty old.
Wake Up bro and READ me as I in NO WAY “blame-anyone-other-than-the-Jews fake-progressive J-street-style blame-the-Christians-for-crimes-of-the-zionists crap”
There is way MORE than enough blame to go around for ALL but playing ‘the blame game’ gets US nowhere but going in circles and I say ENOUGH of this BS is MORE than enough and that is what I am about @
http://wearewideawake.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/eileenfleming
After having visited Palestine numerous times, Eileen Fleming knows full well where to lay blame, and she has done so in a remarkable way with her tireless writing, given interviews and reporting from the front lines in this struggle.
Her statement at the top of this thread, “Many of the ‘Christian’ West do not follow what Jesus said and not all Jews hate Muslims, but many have been brainwashed by bad theology and ideologies that promote superiority.” is factual. Not all Jews condone Zionism and the damage that Zionism causes:
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
And many Christians (whose false beliefs lend most of the US political support for Israel) are clueless to even the teachings of their old Books, even those Books which were compromised by the early Church-State that Eileen mentioned. Check out some of the works of Thomas Williamson, works that clearly show that Zionism is an abomination in the eyes of the Christian’s God:
http://www.thomaswilliamson.net/palestine.htm
http://www.thomaswilliamson.net/God's%20Land.htm
For more: http://www.thomaswilliamson.net/
Eileen Fleming is no mor an apologist for AIPAC-lite J Streeters than I am. Her shedding light here on the illegitimacy of Zionism is spot on, and I don’t understand the challenge to her righteous posts on this issue.
DavidE, David Evans, same Jew working for Eileen Fleming for manipulation…Eillen Fleming doesn’t know shit accept Israelli subterfuge….MY Call !!
Unfortunately she is running for a political office and she will evade direct handling of any issues that might remotely jeopardize her chances for success in the current unforgiving political atmosphere. Her responses to her commenters often comes with an 18 wheeler load of cut and paste verbosity to bury the issue and triumphantly leave without addressing it.
Sorry Art, that is Classic! I love it!
Suggested additional reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/books/24jews.html
http://ishkbooks.com/books/GNGJ1.html
Eileen, Litmus test. Did 19 terrorist take over four jet liners, and manuever them across the East, and fly into at least three buildings? -Or is this whole story total Hogwash? In flight training when asked an EP, Emergency Procedure, the Instructor spelled out something then asked the question,The same question, I am going to ask you.
Whatya gonna Do?! (say)
I say i have no clue what you are talking about: “Instructor spelled out something then asked the question” how can i respond to a question i haven’t heard?
I say the 9/11 Families are still waiting for answers to these questions that we the people also need answered:
1. Why were standard operating procedures for dealing with hijacked airliners not followed that day?
2. Why were the extensive missile batteries and air defenses reportedly deployed around the Pentagon not activated during the attack?
3. Why did the Secret Service allow Bush to complete his elementary school visit, apparently unconcerned about his safety or that of the schoolchildren?
4. Why hasn’t a single person been fired, penalized, or reprimanded for the gross incompetence we witnessed that day?
5. Why haven’t authorities in the U.S. and abroad published the results of multiple investigations into trading that strongly suggested foreknowledge of specific details of the 9/11 attacks, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of traceable gains?
6. Why has Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who claims to have knowledge of advance warnings, been publicly silenced with a gag order requested by Attorney General Ashcroft and granted by a Bush-appointed judge?
7. How could Flight 77, which reportedly hit the Pentagon, have flown back towards Washington D.C. for 40 minutes without being detected by the FAA’s radar or the even superior radar possessed by the US military?
8. How were the FBI and CIA able to release the names and photos of the alleged hijackers within hours, as well as to visit houses, restaurants, and flight schools they were known to frequent?
9. What happened to the over 20 documented warnings given our government by 14 foreign intelligence agencies or heads of state?
10. Why did the Bush administration cover up the fact that the head of the Pakistani intelligence agency was in Washington the week of 9/11 and reportedly had $100,000 wired to Mohamed Atta, considered the ringleader of the hijackers?
11. Why did the 911 Commission fail to address most of the questions posed by the families of the victims, in addition to almost all of the questions posed here?
12. Why was Philip Zelikow chosen to be the Executive Director of the ostensibly independent 911 Commission although he had co-authored a book with Condoleezza Rice?
Don’t stop there, now!-Girl!–You got all those things down, and say you are running for congress. DO NOT forget these things. Be Strong I believe you may have, could have written twenty pages more.
Then don’t stop with your belief on who you think did it to the US- US!
I happen to be humble enough to know I do not know and open enough to want to learn the truth. ENOUGH with the conjectures that cannot be proven until they are investigated.
Nobody except those directly involved KNOW who all was behind 9/11!
IF i am elected to Congress my second act of Congress will be a call for the 9/11 familes who want ALL their questions answered to also speak on the congressional record and call for an open transparent investigation.
My first act of Congress will be to invite all the USS Liberty survivors who want to speak on the congressional record about that other day in infamy when the government failed to support the troops; and
PS: THAT DAY and This 9/11
http://wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=640&Itemid=176
Eillen. I was speaking about when my Flight Instructor would ask me about an Emergency Procedure with the Aircraft…Sorry you are not that far up to snuff….Then you state about how can you respond to a question you have not heard??! -Then you Bullet off twelve responses, nice way to respond to things you have not heard-So Quickly!? Jack Nicholson, and we must Free Palestine!-Have a nice night,
Sincerely
TJ Bronco
Eileen Flemming For sure Zionist!-Bring it on! Get on board- but for sure never press it unless it get’s pressed. -And don’t forget to have a sentence of doubt before you pour on miserable little truths…Tell us about those SEVEN, excuse me EIGHT Buildings….
Do YOU HAVE ANY ANSWERS??!- EILEEN??! Do not answer a question with a question, or forever be a ZIONIST!
Prove your slander against me by calling me a Zionist by citing anything I have ever written, published, said to back up such idiocy, which is on par with those who call me an Antisemite and not one of them has taken my dare!
Begin here if you dare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzPHzUbr3SI&feature=channel_video_title
Anti-Zionism is a debate about the religious, moral, and legal legitimacy of an entity called Israel. A seemingly “anti-Zionist” activists movement has been in the making in the last decade or so to redefine anti-Zionism debate. They are metamorphosing the ‘legitimacy’ debate into ‘behavior’ debate. They buy credibility for themselves in the progressive circles by lashing out at Israeli authorities but only within the ‘behavioral’ domain. They never question the “legitimacy’ of the state. Their ‘unstated’ subliminally implanting perception is that if Israelis behave better every one should be happy.
1. SOP wasn’t followed bc there were multiple war games going on that day, one involving the simulated hijacking of 11 passenger aircraft…Also remember, in May a presidential order was signed giving the VP shootdown authority-not the regional AF Generals..
2. BC Flt 77 never flew into the Pentago…there was no wreckage of a 767..Just ask Army Spec April Gallop who crawled through the hole w/her injured baby, whuch concurs w/Mark Harris of CNN that morning…
3. They knew what the targets were going to be..and what wasn’t going to be targeted.
Bill you, I many others understand a great deal of what happened that day. Others state there is no way, to know what happened…
6. Sibel Edmonds knows that OBL was on our payroll right up until 9-11…he never ran some mythical terror org..and had nothing to do w/9-11..she had to be silenced…If she had been a little less high-profile, like Deborah Jean Palfrey, she would have been killed..
2. ( Again ) A missile was fired into the Pentagon..the transponder was a match for “ours” so there was no way that those “extensive missile batteries” ever had a chance to be activated…
8. It was the CIA that got most of those “hijackers” visas through the consulate in Jeddah in the first place..Are you beginning to get it? They had handlers…the job of the handler is to get the patsy in the right place ( or as close as possible ) so he can be blamed…Mission Accomplished.
#10 could be seeded Wiki-leak type bs…I never believed that one…It’s possible they were setting Pakistan up..Much like the crap on 5/1…”look see? they knew where he was all along!” If the Pakistanis didn’t support our invasion of Afghanistan they were threatened with being bombed back to the stone age…we know that much…our supply lines go across their land….
12. Zelikow and a couple other really bad apples were chosen ( Kissinger was Bush’s first choice remember ) to divert any of the investigation away fm what actually happened; this was a Mossad/Mossad asset attack on our country to get us into Afghanistan and Iraq and surround Iran…The war profiteering, poppy seeds and pipelines are just gravy on the side..
Chris over at http://www.bollyn.com has done a good job on 9-11…So have http://www.rediscover911.com
Thank you Bill. -Just trying to get this candidate up to ‘snuff ‘ on what is really going on out there as opposed to what she and the vast majority being, manipulated, may hear…
Snuff this!
TRUE Antisemitism is a prejudice against or hostility towards the Jewish people and it is rooted in fear that breed’s hatred and it must be denounced and confronted and I DO!
Case In Point: In my first book, “KEEP HOPE ALIVE” I wrote regarding the ‘Christian’ Crusades and the Jewish Holocaust:
“Those barbarians tortured and burned people at the stake! What kind of Christian could rationalize that? So much hypocrisy! I will not give my soul over to another. No institution is going to control me…I think Christians can be real cowards, or else they were sleeping while Hitler was gaining power. I hate to think it, but maybe it was because they were anti-Semitic?”
Webster’s Dictionary defines SEMITE is “a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs or a descendant of these peoples” thus Palestinians are as much a Semite as any Jew.
I invite and dare anyone to back up their lame straw men attacks against me by citing anything I have ever written, published, said to prove that i am in any way being “manipulated” a Zionist or Antisemitic.
Happy hunting!
More nagging points:
“Webster” is not the name of a particular dictionary, the same way that ‘carbonated soft drink’ is not a reference to a particular soft drink brand. You probably meant say Miriam Webster. I also suggest to read the first 20 or so pages of the dictionary. It explains what a dictionary is today. It is not an encyclopedia or a vetting reference that 30-40 years ago people thought of. Today a dictionary is a mirror held against the most prevalent usage, pronunciation, or understanding of a word in a particular community or region, not what scholarly is considered the ‘correct’ version. Quoting dictionaries for ‘correctness’ is an obsolete practice.
//I invite..anyone to back up their lame straw men attacks against me by citing anything I have ever written, published, said to prove that i am in any way being “manipulated” a Zionist or Antisemitic.//
Lets look at the same post here:
//.. Antisemitism is a prejudice against or hostility towards the Jewish people ..//
This is a Zionist definition (for criticism against non-semitic converts) which is the prevalent understanding in the West and might be in the dictionaries too. No Semitic Judean has ever used this term in a civic debate that I know of. The Altaic converts (who constitute 92-95% of Judaic followers) never use this term for Christian senseless media or fighter jet bombardments of the Semitic Middle Easterns, but would scream Anti-Semite once critics utter the fact that they are behind these bombings! Jews (non-Semitic converts) are considered heretics by Judeans since Judaism does not recognized conversion. It is a small wonder that Judeans have largely stayed away from Israel and Khazarian global networks. So “Jewish People” (where the authentic Judeans stay away from ) has no scholarly definition except the political/popcult prevalent definition which is spread by Holly Wood and media, both run by Judaized Khazarians.
oops.. Merriam, not Miriam.
I don’t hunt anymore, I love the animals too much…
Peace and prosperity make you popular. Mossd operatives get you impeached.
MossAd…
One of the finest collections of work, put forth, in the quest for truth:
http://www.skolnicksreport.com
Here, you will learn about Bill and Monica…
READ ‘EM ALL!!!
There is a difference btwn being anti-Jewish and anti-semitic…As mentioned above anti-semitism is a hatred of the Jewish “race” ( in quotations since what bloodline exists between Jesus, Joseph and Mary and the E. European/Turk/Mongol mix that is the Khazars? ) Personally, spiritually and theologically I’m “anti” all religions that deny the divinity of Christ….Some are worse than others….Talmudic Judaism is among the worst..it’s tribal self-worship and hatred of the goyim…That’s all…What’s good according to the Talmud? Well, what’s good for the Jews..When the Muslims were at the gates of Vienna was it a Just War to fight them back? When the Turkish fleet tried to conquer the Med and were defeated by the combined naval forces of the Holy League at the Battle of LePanto was that a just war? If the US had scorched the Israeli tanks in the Sinai after they purposely attacked our ship would that have been a just response? What kind of Christian so casually dismisses the teachings of Saints such as Augustine and Aquinas?
And furthermore…when did the Children of Israel turn into “JEWISH”..? Thirty years searching for evidence, proof, something to prove that the “JEWISH” narrative is something other than a LIE…Nothing so far. Eileen, can you admit that in John 8:33 when “THEY” said “THEY” had never been in Bondage, that “THEY” did not speak YIDDISH ? That “THEY” could not be from either Benjamin,Levi, or Judah ? What Tribe of the 10 northern tribes of the Kingdom of Israel that went into the Assyrian Captivity had a Talmud, that wasn’t printed until 500AD ? Have you seen the time machine that allowed Khazar proselytes to Talmudic Judaism to travel backwards in time to get to Egypt before the Moses/Exodus ? The schematics, maybe ? [http://www.israelect.com/reference/Willie-Martin/was_index.html] If I hate Lies{jewish narrative-John 8:44}, and I am Semitic how do I become also anti-semitic when the so-called “JEWS” are not semitic. Self Defense is not Violence. Apparently maybe you interface with too many “JEW WORSHIPPING MORONS” who believe falsely that there is one iota of truth to the “JEWISH” narrative…After reading Issa Nakhlehs’ Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, and In Search of Isaacs Children {Willie Martin Files Outline} It is abundantly clear that a case of MISTAKEN IDENTITY on purpose has occured, the Khazars are being played for suckers..Like in the book of Obadiah, where do you find Khazar/Ashkenazim Proselytes ? Because like in Matthew 13, “THEY” appear to be bundled up and tossed into an oven….is that violence or self defense ? Wouldn’t it be much easier to rack up the Facts, Like Benjamin Freedman and simply conclude…HEY “THEY” print the currency, OWN THE MEDIA, Lie everytime they open their mouths, MURDER with impugnity and claim to be Israel, but are not Israelites or even Judahites, but are the synagogue of Satan…because “THEY” are Jewish ? See : Hasbara film by Gilad Atzmon {grin}…Got Diet Coke {mercury/Formaldahyde}..? Braindeadgoy…fewer and fewer everyday….Congress is a Crackwhorehouse…don’t do it…You must preserve your family honor….think about it. Isaiah 3.
Oh Yeah, I forgot, Define “INTELLIGENCE”. Once at Ft. Huachuca the issue arose, if you don’t get the right answer, you might be using bad Intelligence. THINKING defined means arriving at a correct/provably true = RIGHT answer, conviently not the WRONG answer {JEWISH}.Jewish is synonymous with LIES…NO One on Earth has to be “JEWISH” !! Please = Help free the “JEWS” from the bondage of Talmudic Judaism, which means telling them the TRUTH, so “THEY” too can get the right answer. {avoiding the ovens} or Jesus was Lying…Let’s see…Bad Faith emanates from what source ? [Remember the Parable of the good Samaritan ? "WHO" lived in Samaria ? Not the Ten Northern tribes of the Kingdom of Israel, No "YIDDISH" speaking proselytes to Talmudic Judaism...and oh yeah, Herod was an Idumean/EDOMITE]…so what was Jesus really talking about ? In Isaiah 3:12 is it talikng about Tzipi Livni ? or Ruth Bader Ginzburg, Elena Kagan or the Latina “JEW” ? ….just sayin’
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